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Tuesday March 31, 2015

An FCC complaint brought against WMNF has been dismissed. In November, the station was informed that a listener had filed a complaint about indecent language that his wife heard on WMNF. After the stationÃ¢â¬â¢s lawyer spoke with the FCC it was determined that the listener thought they heard the f-word on 7:30 am on a Sunday. WMNF station manger Vicki Santa says the time of the show, along with the fact that there was no recording, led the FCC to decide the complaint was not valid.

2 Tampa bay area investigative journalists who were censored by WTVT fox 13 lost their several yearlong battle in court in 2003. Jane Akre and Steve Wilson applied for whistle blower status in 1998 after they were ordered to present false information in a report on Bovine growth hormone, which is injected into cows and can cause sickness in people who people who eat the cows meat or drink their milk. After winning in several courts, eventually a judge ruled that TV news has no legal obligat...

Tampa bay area philanthropist Dr Kirin Patel was in Western India when the Tsunami struck, he has been involved in raising money for relief efforts for the eastern shores of India since Sunday, and has set up a challenge fund, pledging to match each dollar donated in the next week, hoping to raise 100,000 dollars. WMNF spoke to Dr Patel today from the Gujarat province of India.

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That was Dr Kiran Patel. For more information about the Patel Foundations challenge fu...

The Association for Community Organization Now, or ACORN is conducting a nationwide campaign against Jackson Hewitt, a chain of tax preparation offices. They say that Jackson Hewitt uses takes unfair advantage of poor people through its holiday loans refund anticipation ,loans and other overprices products. This afternoon, that campaign cam to Orlando, where ACORN held a demonstration outside a Jackson Hewitt branch On Curry Ford Road. WMNF spoke today with ACORD organizer Stephanie Portay...

For the past two days, Almost 800 employees of at the Florida Crystal sugar mill in Palm Beach County have been on strike. Although contract negotiations have been taking place since October 28th, the workers did not see hope in the talks with management and a federal mediator could not bring the two sides together. Joaquin Almazan is a janitor and works in the parts division at the Sugar mill owned by the Okeelanta Corporation, a subsidiary of Florida Crystal.

SCRIPT: This past Christmas marked the fifty-third anniversary of the killing of Civil Rights activist, and Executive Director of the state's NAACP, Harry T. Moore and his wife, in Brevard County Florida. While it is widely believed the killing was racially motivated and the Ku Klux Klan was behind the killing of Moore and his wife, Harriette, no one has ever been arrested or brought to trial. State Attorney General Charlie Christ has announced that he will direct the FDLE to re-open the inve...

Several professors in the Florida State University College of Medicine are threatening to resign if school administrators continue to pursue a proposed chiropractic school. The threatened resignations from assistant professors who work part time reflect a belief among many in the medical establishment that chiropractic is a "pseudo-science" that leads to unnecessary and sometimes harmful treatments. The professors are circulating a parody map of campus that places a fictional Bigfoot Insti...

This summer a Florida delegation to the Presbyterian Church USA came to the churches bi-annual assembly with a proposal to stop investing in companies which support the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands, and remove all investments that are currently made in those companies. The proposal passed, and now a group on Presbyterians concerns about the religious rift it may cause is trying to get the church to take back the policy. Jerry Van Marter is director of the Presbyterian News servic...

INTRO: The fear of law enforcement agencies can put undocumented immigrants in danger. Pitfalls such as rape and spousal abuse occur more and more frequently as these people arrive, pressures rise, and just to survive strains families and immigrant communities. Margueritta Romo is with the Farmworkers SelfHelp in Dade City. She speaks of one such case. Roll Tape: